The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people. — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes. — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people. — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent. — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union. — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited. — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
